Following definitions for the keywords are related to PTC and PTC only. Hence some definitions may vary from common meaning.
Affiliate
An affiliate is a person who was referred by someone else to a site to use their products or services. In return referrer is granted with a commission.
Aurora Sites
They pay lower rates per ad click, usually between $0.0005 to $0.005 per ad click. And display more ads to click. Auroras depends on advertising to make the site profitable hence more sustainable.
Bux Sites
Usually they have less ads than Auroras but pay higher rates per click, usually between $0.001-$0.02 per click and equally per referral click based on the membership. Buxes depends on membership fees and other investments by members hence more unstable.
Cashout
Withdraw your earned money from account balance to a payment processor.
DDoS/ DoS attacks
A Denial-of-Service(DoS) or Distributed Denial-of-Service(DDoS) attack is a hacker attack to make website unavailable to it's users by interrupting their services.
Downline
A member's downline is other members who referred or bought by him/her.
Fixed Cashout Limit
A withdrawal limit(say $2.00) that does not increase after your first cashout request.
Instant Cashout
Pay instantly once a cashout request made. No waiting or holding payments is showing in your payment processor account.
Jobs
Jobs, Mini Jobs, Micro jobs are simple jobs that can be done online and earn money after complete.
Ex: Find contact details of a provided website.
MembersEx: Find contact details of a provided website.
Registered users of a website to use their product and services.
Offers
Offers to take and earn a commission at the completion.
Standard Members
Registered members with a free membership. Their abilities to use services could be limited, referral limits, etc...
Upgraded Members
Registered members with a paid membership. They can use upgraded features like higher referral limits, higher valuable ads, high rates per referral ad click etc...
Ponzi scheme
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation.
PPC
Pay per click(PPC) is the amount spent to get an advertisement clicked.
PTC
Paid To Click(PTC) is a concept that pay users to click ads.
PTP
Paid to Promote(PTP) is a concept that pay users to promote their products and/ or services.
PTR
Paid To Read(PTR) is a concept that pay users to read emails or messages.
PTS
Paid To Search(PTR) is a concept that pay users to search.
PTSU
Paid to Sign Up(PTSU) is a concept that pay users to signup or register to their site.
Referrals
A referral is a member of a site who is assigned under another member of the same site.
Direct Referrals
Referral LimitDirect Referrals
A direct referral of a member is a referral who was referred by him/her.
Rented Referrals
A rented referral of a member is a referral who was rented for a period of time(usually a month) by him/her.
Maximum number of direct or rented referrals a member can have based on the membership type.
Scam
Scam, fraud, swindle is a fraudulent business scheme.
Stepped Cashout Limit
A withdrawal limit that increase the minimum limit step by step after each cashout. Most of the time a stepped cashout limit ends when it hits a fixed limit.
Tasks
Same as the jobs, simple tasks that can be done online and earn money after complete.
Ex: Find contact details of a provided website.
ToSEx: Find contact details of a provided website.
Terms of Service (ToS/ TOS) OR Terms of Use OR Terms and Conditions OR Agreement OR simply Rules is a set of rules a member of that site must agree to accept in order to use a service provide by that site. It is the legal bond between a user and the site.
Upline
A member's upline is another members who referred or bought him/her.
